Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Fight Night by Miriam Toews

3 reviews

helfire124's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Humorous and heartfelt, a great listen that will have you laugh out loud.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Suicide, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death of parent, Death, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Misogyny, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Alcohol, Body horror, Sexual harassment, Ableism, Animal death, Child abuse, Dementia, Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

martinj's review against another edition

dark funny lighthearted sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment, Medical content, Child abuse, Death, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Blood, Grief, and Suicide

Minor: Alcoholism

emudds's review

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

this was a reflective story about the catharsis of grief and mental health across generations but told in a way that felt lighthearted without making light. in a book that's essentially dispensing broad strokes life advice every page i can see how that might wear on some, but i found the observations toews makes pretty earnest and refreshing. i could see myself revisiting this book at a time when i can relate more to swiv for comfort.

quotes i likeeeeeed:
--lonely fights are the worst, she said. she'd rather lose a lonely fight. she'd rather join a losing team than win a lonely fight.
--know you are loved. know you are strong. remember these words. 'they can kill me, but they can't scare me.'
--if you lose your mind can you find your mind again? of course you can. that's life!
--people like to separate his plays into tragedies and comedies... aren't they all one and the same? so, king lear fails to connect with what's important in life and loses his mind.. who hasn't? there's comedy in that, don't kid yourself.
--to be alive means full body contact with the absurd. still, we can be happy, even poor old sisyphus could figure out that much.
--we need tragedy, which is the need to love and the need... not just the need, the imperative, the human imperative... to experience joy. to find joy and to create joy. all through the night. the fight night. (wow guys he said it he said the line)
--grandma told me fighting can be making peace. she said sometimes we move forward by looking back and sometimes the onward can be knowing when to stop.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Infidelity, Medical content, and Pregnancy